I'm drunk right now, but I've made a patch that makes 16 voices of polyphony on my Micro, so, I started this topic for anyone to try to beat this one (as I remember, there was already one making 15 voices, that was made from a "PercOsc" and a stereo output (on a mono output it does 16 voices). But this one has a switchable waveform :> Not only a sine-like-electro-piano my friend... (although it's limited to those lower freq. sounds)...

Btw. It's all about an envelope now... I've made a patch with a vocoder module and a 14 voice polyphony on a Micro... BUT without any envelope <- that's the only problem... Anyway, I'm really pissed when I read all those ads saying: "Nord Micro Modular: 4 notes polyphony..." <- This is not true !!!

Probably, but it's hard to copyright a patch that's made from 3 modules and 3 cords... I know, there was a BIG discussion about copyrights here, and on the mailing list, and I don't want to trigger this shit once again, but YES, there was a patch made by someone (probably You Jan), that had only a PercOsc and an output inside... And It was officially 15 voices on Micro... (no-one made an effort to check if it have made any changes in the voices area when one chose mono output => Yes it did! it makes 16 voices on Micro Modular, but only a cheap sine wave electro-piano like sounds...)

....and I found those Solina patches too (You must bear in mind that these patches weren't intended to mimic a Solina. I just gave it that name because the Solina is a string ensemble, and it is a nice name )

So they don't 'sound' like a Solina? Well they sound pretty string ensemble-like to my ears and as far as I'm concerned- that's cool enough

I think both are pretty much identical- except one gives more waveforms.

I just knocked up that super polyphony patch. I haven't got my micromodular connected so I can't test it I'm afraid. But here's a screenshot.

With this setup it makes 14 voices of polyphony. I've replaced evelope with GainControl module, and it has 16 voices of polyphony, so I guess there have to be some other technique to get more than that.

....and I found those Solina patches too (You must bear in mind that these patches weren't intended to mimic a Solina. I just gave it that name because the Solina is a string ensemble, and it is a nice name )

So they don't 'sound' like a Solina? Well they sound pretty string ensemble-like to my ears and as far as I'm concerned- that's cool enough

I think both are pretty much identical- except one gives more waveforms.

I used to have an Elka Rhapsody 610- it had a very similar sound. You could mix piano and strings too. Very nice indeed

The patch I uploaded needs special attention paid to the chorus section. I created this matrix of switches that gave it an anti-phase sort of sound- quite psychedelic -if my memory serves me right- no bad thing imo!

Another thing bearing in mind is the use of 3 chorus units which if placed in the top window, would probably only allow 1 note polyphony. Try removing them and see what happens..... listen to the sound too.

I think there was only a small change to the polyphony, and the chorus sounds so nice- so what the heck!

I've seen this clever use of a slave oscillator, and a pitch control by note info controlling morph group in one of Howard Scarr's patches, and I thought to give this a try to check the polyphony with this trick - it gave 19 voices =) But I discovered something funny - I tried to use A/B/C LFO's which need less DSP power, and the polyphony drops to 16 voices immediately - weird :/ (Antoher weird thing is the use of a "Keyboard-Voice" module, which is theoretically 0.00% DSP, but drops the polyphony from 32 to 28 right away when it's added to a patch.)

(Antoher weird thing is the use of a "Keyboard-Voice" module, which is theoretically 0.00% DSP, but drops the polyphony from 32 to 28 right away when it's added to a patch.)

Yes, that's probably related to the "zero page". The zero page is a section of the processor's memory that keeps track of all the outputs in the patch and what value is on them at any given moment. Because all those values take a little memory you can only have a finite amount of them in the whole synth. The keyboard module hardly takes any cpu cycles at all but it does have four outputs...._________________Kassen

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